Forum Update - March 27, 2009

Published on March 27, 2009 By GunslingerBara In Forum Issues

Hello everyone!

An update has been pushed to the forums. There have only been 2 major updates to the forums:

1. You should now be able to update your avatar and personal image regardless of whether you are using Flash 9 or Flash 10. This should also work for any site that didn't work before for Flash 10, but that has not been fully tested yet.
2. Forum search is now working. We are using Google as our search engine for the time being, but that should provide far better results than what we had before.

Please let me know if you notice any further issues or problems related to the above 2.

Thank you,

Bara

Comments (Page 3)

Philocthetes

on Apr 01, 2009

Well, now I'm thinking what I saw was a search burp because some later searches over at Elemental showed a bunch of clutter from off-topic threads.

Is there any chance we'll ever be able to search just the topics we want to read (an 'Advanced' local search)? Ever since the cross-site merger thingy got so big, it has been much harder to use the site: search limiter to help searches because the domain names don't mean quite what they used to.

Zyxpsilon

on Apr 01, 2009

Superbly effective workaround process of the Search Function - finally ours to use again!

I can only guess, busy devs have gained some well deserved slack from a thoroughly ready & solid beta compiled version of Elemental.

GunslingerBara

on Apr 01, 2009

GW Swicord

reply 6

Well, now I'm thinking what I saw was a search burp because some later searches over at Elemental showed a bunch of clutter from off-topic threads.

Is there any chance we'll ever be able to search just the topics we want to read (an 'Advanced' local search)? Ever since the cross-site merger thingy got so big, it has been much harder to use the site: search limiter to help searches because the domain names don't mean quite what they used to.

Unfortunately not, based on the tools available to me from Google. However, I have started discussions with our database guy in possibly bringing back direct database search, so that we don't have to go through Google. But don't expect it anytime soon, this is probably months off as it requires new servers to handle the load, some code updates, and likely other changes.

Zyxpsilon

reply 7

Superbly effective workaround process of the Search Function - finally ours to use again!

I can only guess, busy devs have gained some well deserved slack from a thoroughly ready & solid beta compiled version of Elemental.

I wish

Bara

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